Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recognized his quality when he was a student in a seminar of mine," Paul A. Freund, Loeb University Professor Emeritus, said yesterday. Freund was also a member of the committee that selected Tribe to serve as a clerk to Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart...
...hands shot up. "What happens if revenue sharing stops?" someone asked. Town Clerk Olga Hallock insisted that the federal money would continue to flow. Said a voice: "No one's going to vote against revenue sharing in Washington. If he did, he'd get killed when he comes home...
...uncommon. According to Louise Kapp Howe, the odds are overwhelming that what such women do is vastly undervalued. To assemble her disquieting portrait of the work life of the average woman, Howe interviewed scores of women, met with unions and management and even took a job as a sales clerk. The vast majority of women, she writes, are in "pink collar" occupations: beautician, office worker, sales clerk, waitress. Among the problems contributing to their generally low wages: too many applicants and not enough jobs, indifferent unions, and company policy predicated on "A and P" (attrition and pregnancy) to hold down...
...point about how women's work is consistently given short shrift, Howe includes a few choice listings from the Labor Department's Dictionary of Occupational Titles. It ranks some 30,000 jobs according to their level of complexity. "Nurse, midwife" is classified as less skilled than hotel clerk; "homemaker," cross-referenced with "general maid," ranks slightly lower than dog-pound attendant...
Freund, who served as a clerk to Justice Louis Brandeis, said that the Court of the 1930s struck down innovative statutes passed during the Roosevelt administration. The Warren and Burger courts, in contrast, reviewed "legislation of an older vintage...